There’s no way you’re going to contribute meaningfully right now with less than 80h weeks. The sheer noise level is high enough that proof-of-effort is the only thing that cuts through. Even if your contribution is a genuinely breakthrough insight that took 5 minutes to generate.
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Bet you don’t. The backstop answer for all of it is “ask on Twitter” because no source is curating information flows in a way that matches the specific needs of any specific sink. Info sources are producing what they can, info sinks are consuming what they can cobble together.
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The info markets are selling apples and buying oranges. With huge apple-to-orange transaction costs.
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There’s a need for Covid19 information brokers. The information supply chains were never meant to distribute this pattern of information. The ontology, time constants, QA..., everything is off. Even disinformation actors are struggling to exploit this, the confusion is that bad.
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Also, not all the information flow problems are equally important to solve at the same time. Some confusion can stay unresolved for a year or more without serious damage. Other confusion is causing avoidable deaths or avoidable bankruptcy right now.
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Ah yes, I didn't even get to that part... everybody and their uncle is putting together a generic "covid19 response" social media group without a clear sense of what role *their* group might play https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1250470806808739840play ….
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I debated quite a bit initially before pulling together the
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If you DO take on an information-broker type task/responsibility, measure your success the right way. Are you matching info demand to supply in a meaningful way that's helping resolve actual problems on one end? Or are you just amplifying the generalized pissing into a tornado?
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